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Zac Efron Shared His Daredevil Side on 'Letterman'

29 November 2009 8:41 PM, PST | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »

Zac Efron has opened up about the daredevil stunt he performed when he was in production for "Charlie St. Cloud". Being a guest at "Late Show with David Letterman", the leading man of the "High School Musical" series admitted to host David Letterman he had done some bungee jumps while filming for the movie in Vancouver, Canada.

"We [my friends and I] had this brilliant idea to wake up in the morning and go bungee jumping which isn't really a good idea when you're in production, because you've signed various contracts saying you won't," the 22-year-old recalled on his thrill-seeking act. "You can divide the world into guys who will do it and guys who won't do it. I'm definitely one who will."

The boyfriend of fellow "HSM" star, Vanessa Hudgens, went on detailing, "It's a pretty surreal feeling to be honest. I did kind of a back flip when I went off. Falling face first. »

- celebrity-mania.com

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We like it: Jeremy Renner in talks to play Hawkeye in ‘The Avengers’

27 November 2009 11:21 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) has had discussions with Marvel about portraying Hawkeye in Thor and The Avengers.

“Hawkeye could be interesting,” Renner said. “I’d love for that to happen. It’d be fun… I’m just happy to get considered for big franchise roles like that.”

He added: “[Marvel are] going to send me some stuff on it, see what it is, but I think they’re pretty awesome, trying to make superhero movies almost plausible and not just some fantasy thing.”

Here’s some information on Hawkeye in case you’re not a nerd:

While Hawkeye has no superhuman powers, he is a trained athlete and tactician, being at the very peak of human conditioning. The character is a grandmaster marksman, having been trained by the criminal archer Trick Shot, and has been a highly trained acrobat and aerialist since his days in the circus. Hawkeye has been thoroughly »

- Reel Loop News Staff

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10 closest Oscar races in the past 20 years

23 November 2009 1:12 PM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

One of the shrewdest Oscarologists on the planet is Tariq Khan of Fox News, who often generously shares his views of current and past derbies with Gold Derby readers. Here he takes a nostalgic look  at the past two decades, offering his take on the most competitive derbies. Words below are Tariq's. Thanks, m'friend!

We’ve often discussed those Oscar races that seem just too close to call . . . where it’s clear (or at least seems clear) that the eventual winner will nab the Oscar with only a few more votes than his or her nearest competitor. While we can never really know for sure (unless we get one of those top jobs at the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers,) we do have some idea of what may have been the closest races in Oscar history. Allow me to present what I believe were the 10 closest acting races over the course of the past 20 years. »

- tomoneil

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Birthday Suit (With Bright Yellow Trench)

20 November 2009 7:08 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Today is the 109th anniversary of one Chester Gould the creator of Dick Tracy. Every time Dick Tracy (1990) comes up, I think "you should watch that movie again!" but I never do. I think I'm still mad that Warren Beatty kept cutting away from Madonna's "More" performance... which should've easily been one of the best movie musical numbers of the 90s (sigh). Otherwise I quite like the movie

Trivia Alert! Dick Tracy is one of Oscar's two favorite comic book movies along with The Dark Knight (2008). Their Oscar track was very similar. Dick Tracy had 7 nominations and 3 wins. The Dark Knight had 8 nominations and 2 wins and in mostly the same categories, too.

Supporting Actor (both, and the only two comic book performances ever nominated*: Al Pacino and Heath Ledger, winner)

Cinematography (both)

Art Direction (both)

Costume Design (Dick Tracy only)

Sound (both)Sound Editing (The Dark Knight only, »

- NATHANIEL R

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Latest Agency Signings & Hirings

16 November 2009 4:03 AM, PST | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »

Oscar winner Kim Basinger has left her longtime agency CAA to sign with UTA board member and talent head Tracey Jacobs over the weekend.  Basinger will continue to be managed by Oren Segal at Media Talent Group. UTA has hired Jason Egenberg in the TV Talent department. He was previously a manager at Rebel Entertainment. CAA has signed actors: Juliette Binoche, Academy Award winner Nasim Pedrad, a new SNL cast member. Sherri Shepherd, Emmy Award winner, co-host of The View, star of Sherri Rachel Bilson, of the Fox TV hit The O.C. and films The Last Kiss, Jumper, New York, I Love You Ludacris, Grammy winner (Crash, Hustle [...] »

- Nikki Finke

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Birthday Suits: Good Hair, and Good Music.

14 November 2009 7:29 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Celebrating the birthdays of the film-famous. If it's your birthday, we'll sing you a happy one in the comments.

Louise Brooks, Veronica Lake and Josh Duhamel

1906 Louise Brooks, dancer, silent film actress, icon, quotable diva, film critic, memoirist, ...Lost Girl, Lulu. Her hair is legend.

1908 Joseph McCarthy, he saw only Red(s). He's been a villainous figure in movies ever since, whether seen, unseen or fictionalized. See: Guilty by Suspicion, The Way We Were, The Manchurian Candidate, Good Night, and Good Luck. and many more...

1919 Veronica Lake, femme fatale, purveyor of the peek-a-boo bang (her hair also being legend). Kim Basinger didn't even have to get "cut" to look like this goddess in La Confidential. She just had to sell those glorious blonde waves.

1945 Paul Hirsch, editor of Carrie, Star Wars (Oscar win), Ferris Bueller's Day Off and more...

1951 Zhang Yimou, fine director, awesome goddess worshipper. Think of what he »

- NATHANIEL R

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Alec Baldwin Wants to Marry a Very Rich Woman

9 November 2009 1:45 AM, PST | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »

Alec Baldwin, divorced in 2002 after his nine years of marriage with Kim Basinger, told Entertainment Weekly that he would like to marry again and thinks about giving marriage a second chance. However, during his different interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer on September, 51-year-old Baldwin admitted that the divorce was hard for him.

The winner of 2009 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in Comedy Series through his role in "30 Rock", recalled, "I don't mean to glib. But the title really is perfect. It is complicated. I had a pretty tough divorce myself." He continued, "So sometime I sit there and I go, 'Well, should I have worked it out? Maybe I should have tried harder'."

Baldwin added, "People say, 'It's also what you teach your children about their love lives. That's a big thing for me, to teach my daughter: No risk, no reward. I want her to realize that it's a roll of the dice. »

- celebrity-mania.com

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Baldwin: 'I'd love to get married again'

8 November 2009 4:35 PM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Alec Baldwin has revealed that he would like to marry again. The Emmy-winning 30 Rock star, who was married to actress Kim Basinger for eight years, said that despite having a "tough" divorce, he still thinks about giving marriage a second chance. The 51-year-old told Entertainment Weekly: "I don't mean to glib. But the title really is perfect. It is complicated. I had a pretty tough divorce myself, so sometimes I sit there and I go, ‘Well, should I have worked it out? Maybe I should have tried harder'. "It's (more) »

- By Marcell Minaya

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Alec Baldwin: I Have A Great Ass, I'd Love To Remarry

6 November 2009 11:39 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Alec Baldwin appears on the cover of the new holiday movie preview issue of Entertainment Weekly, promoting his upcoming romantic comedy 'It's Complicated' with costar Meryl Streep. Baldwin, who messily split from Kim Basinger, his wife of eight years, in 2001, talks about his own complicated love life and taking his clothes off for the movie. On his nude scene: "[That was] my ass double! You can put that in Entertainment Weekly so people know. I have a great ass, if I may say so. That's a part of my body that needs no surgical enhancement or rearranging." On teaching daughter Ireland about love and loss: "I had a pretty tough divorce myself, so sometimes I sit there and I go, 'Well, should I have worked it out? Maybe I should have tried harder.' It's also what you teach your children about... »

- Katy Hall

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Alec Baldwin Wants Cosmetic Surgery To Reduce Ageing Process

6 November 2009 7:39 AM, PST | Gossipvita | See recent Gossipvita news »

The 51-year-old star is considering going under the knife because he is unhappy with the effect the ageing process is having on his looks. Speaking about surgically-altering his appearance, Alec said: "I'm not saying I wouldn't do something! I intend to do something. I probably will. “Let's put it this way, I wouldn't rule it out because... You don't think I wake up every day and wish I looked like this and this and this? But I can't let that bother me." But Alec  - who had a butt double for his new movie ‘It’s Complicated’ – is happy with some parts of his body. He added: "I have a great a*s, if I may say so. That's a part of my body that needs no surgical enhancement or rearranging." Alec - who split from his actress wife of eight years Kim Basinger in 2001 – admitted he regrets the end of his marriage. »

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Alec Baldwin wants cosmetic surgery (IrishCentral)

6 November 2009 6:52 AM, PST | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »

“30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin says he is interested in getting cosmetic surgery. The 51-year-old Irish-American actor is considering going under the knife because he is unhappy with the effect the ageing process is having on his looks. Speaking about surgically-altering his appearance, Baldwin said: "I'm not saying I wouldn't do something! I intend to do something. I probably will. “Let's put it this way, I wouldn't rule it out because...You don't think I wake up every day and wish I looked like this and this and this? But I can't let that bother me." But Baldwin, who had a butt double for his new movie “It’s Complicated,” is happy with some parts of his body. "I have a great ass, if I may say so,” he said. “That's a part of my body that needs no surgical enhancement or rearranging." The actor, who split from his actress wife »

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Lil Wayne's Ice Cream Cake Job

30 October 2009 9:46 AM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

When I was a kid, my mom would make birthday cakes that looked like trains, or zoo cages. One time there was a really, really scary clown. There are psychic scars, to be sure, but they're likely nothing compared to poor Ireland Basinger-Baldwin, 14, daughter of battling ex's Kim Basinger and Alex Baldwin.

The teen — who, you might recall, was on the wrong end of a really nasty voicemail from her pops two years ago — reportedly got a frighteningly accurate specialty birthday cake last week in the shape of Lil Wayne's head, complete with licorice dreads, chocolate sunglasses and iced out icing grill. We have no idea if this story is true (since the image from Los Angeles ace cake shop Rosebud Cakes has since been removed from its Flickr account), but any way you slice it, that is the most Wtf?-tastic cake we've ever seen.

Congratulations Kim and Alex, »

- Gil Kaufman

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Uma Thurman to play a Milf in ‘Ceremony’

1 October 2009 8:30 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Who says Uma Thurman can’t be funny?

Thurman, who just wrapped up playing Medusa in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, has joined the cast of Ceremony, a romantic comedy from Nala Films. She will play a Milf (sigh) on the verge of holy matrimony but is courted by a younger man (Michael Angarano).

Ceremony is written and directed by Max Winkler (The Adventurer’s Handbook) with production to begin in late October in Long Island.

Nala Films just completed the Julianne Moore-Jonathan Rhys Meyers supernatural thriller, Shelter, from directors Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein.

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- Erik Buckman

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Steven Soderbergh talks casting an American Gladiator in ‘Knockout’

30 September 2009 11:17 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano is the kind of gal you’d like to meet. Smart (I’m assuming), sexy (clearly not assuming) and has the ability to defend you against attackers, Carano looks like she should be in movies.

“My feeling was, If I don’t do this, somebody else will,” said Steven Soderbergh in an interview with Empire Magazine. “I felt, somebody is going to look at her and go, ‘She should be in a movie!’ And I felt like, Why shouldn’t I be the person saying that?”

Soderbergh is directing Knockout, a spy thriller featuring the Mma fighter in the lead role. “If you start following the female Mma fighters, Gina pops out pretty noticeably,” the Oscar-winning director said. “I thought it was a fascinating combination of appearance and activity… I’d been wanting to make a spy action film for a while, but hadn »

- Erik Buckman

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Megan Fox to Pose for Playboy?

30 September 2009 8:12 AM, PDT | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »

Hugh Hefner has had his share of Hollywood actresses pose for Playboy including Kim Basinger, Drew Barrymore, and Heidi Montag, just to name a few. There never seems to be a shortage of beauties willing to grace the pages of his magazine. Hefner has even invited young Hollywood starlet Miley Cyrus to pose nude once she turns 18, calling her a "very pretty lady" and saying "she'd be welcomed in the magazine." And of course there's still those celebrities that have yet to pose but who he would be very pleased to accept - including Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson. But now his eye is on Megan Fox, and he wants the raven 24-year-old beauty to bare all. Fox has seen her popularity skyrocket since the Transformers movies and, just recently, Jennifer's Body. She's already gone topless for the latter, making boys everywhere swoon, so why not go all the way? »

- jschiecke@corp.popstar.com (Janelle Schiecke)

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Indie Spotlight: New Releases for Sept. 18

18 September 2009 4:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Here's a quick look at what's opening in limited release this weekend. If they're not playing where you live, keep an eye out as they make the rounds. And if all else fails, there's always DVD....

Bright Star(pictured) comes from writer/director Jane Campion, best known for her Oscar-winning screenplay for The Piano. (She got a director nomination for that, too.) Bright Star tells the true story of 19th-century romance between poet John Keats and one Fanny Brawne, played by Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish. It has an 87% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes. It's playing on about 20 screens in New York, L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Dallas.

The Burning Plain is the feature directorial debut by Guillermo Arriaga, who wrote Babel, 21 Grams, and Amores Perros. Once again he favors the fractured timeline and multiple stories; however, this time the result isn't being met with much praise. Only »

- Eric D. Snider

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Exclusive Video: Charlize Theron Discusses Her Role in The Burning Plain

18 September 2009 12:47 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Charlize Theron began her career as just another pretty face in movies like 2 Days In The Valley and The Cider House Rules, but it was her star-turning role in the Academy Award winning film, Monster that earned her not only an Oscar but also the respect of her critics and peers alike. She followed that up with a strong performance in the film In the Valley of Elah and another Oscar nomination for her work in North Country. Now, the acclaimed actress is back again with a gritty, realistic and heart-shattering performance in Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, "The Burning Plain. I had the opportunity to speak exclusively with Charlize Theron about her powerful new performance in the film, which opens on September 18th.

Guillermo Arriaga makes his directorial debut with The Burning Plain, a film about regret and crippling loss. Charlize Theron plays Sylvia, a woman on the verge of suicide, »

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'The Burning Plain': Smithereens, By Kurt Loder

18 September 2009 7:09 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

Charlize Theron on the reassembly line.

Charlize Theron in "The Burning Plain"

Photo: Magnolia Pictures

I think everybody likes a good Wtf movie — remember "Memento"? But director Guillermo Arriaga, who specializes in this sort of thing as a screenwriter ("Babel," "21 Grams"), has scrambled the narrative of "The Burning Plain," his first feature, to no very interesting purpose. It's a beautifully made film, with a couple of arresting performances; but it's so solemn it almost puts itself to sleep, and so pointlessly disjointed you kind of wish it would take a nap.

There's a nice tingle of inscrutability right at the beginning, when we meet Sylvia (Charlize Theron), the manager of a sleek cliff-top restaurant on the Oregon coast. Sylvia is clearly dragging around a heavy burden of woe, which she attempts to lighten by sleeping with any man who comes within hailing distance, and occasionally by gouging her thigh with jagged stones. »

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Review: The Burning Plain

17 September 2009 9:55 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

The time shifting interwoven character drama, in which multiple discordant storylines merge into a coherent whole, is the primary characteristic of the films of Alejandro González Iñárritu and longtime collaborator Guillermo Arriaga. Together, the men perfected the form in Amores Perros and 21 Grams. Its potency waned in Babel, the film that appears to have irreparably fractured their relationship. With The Burning Plain the form can be pronounced to be, if not officially dead, on its last bit of life support. What once seemed like a fresh and exciting method of storytelling, an offshoot of a mode popularized by Robert Altman and others, has become impossibly trite. Written and directed by Arriaga, the film cuts back and forth over more than a decade, weaves its way through two concrete settings and winds up at a place heavy on symbolism and melodrama but empty on ideas. Charlize Theron stars as Sylvia, proprietor of a high-end Portland restaurant and a »

- Robert Levin

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Charlize Theron Answers Some Burning Questions

17 September 2009 7:01 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

When so many other Hollywood actresses are doing everything possible to look good, Charlize Theron seems determined to buck the trend by playing more rough-around-the-edges female roles. Her turn as the decidedly unattractive serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster shocked audiences but earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed up that role by playing a victim of sexual harassment in North Country, which also earned her an Oscar nomination. Theron is once again set to play an unglamorous role in The Burning Plain.

Directed by Guillermo Arriaga, the award-winning writer of Babel, 21 Grams, and Amores Perros, The Burning Plain is a non-linear tale in which Theron plays a sexually promiscuous, suicidal character who is forced to confront the sins of her past. While it sounds like playing a character with such heavy baggage would weigh an actor down emotionally, Theron says that it's just a job.

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- BrentJS Sprecher

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